Covenant Development

[MTKnife]

@Salutor

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@Salutor

Portia didn't have the ritual mastered, so she'd have had 1 basic + 9 extra from the pawns of vis used + 10 extra from the faerie regio - a gold cord I think of 3 = 17 botch dice. That's an absurd number of botch dice.

I don't think the rule on mastery rule on eliminating botch dice is meant to apply to rituals. Yes, I just looked at the discussion from a couple of years ago, but I'm not convinced. I have no idea what someone haasn't errata'ed it to clarify.

I'm not sure either, but either way it's not relevant, as she didn't have it mastered anyway (if she had had it mastered, she would have lost at least some botch dice).

It'll come up later with the Aegis, and so we have to decide. With a familiar, a level 25 Aegis, like we have now, is no big deal--but a level 40 or 50 starts to get dangerous.

@MTKnife

@Salutor

Bear in mind the Ambulatory Laboratory has had its level increased to 50 in the errata - can Viola still learn that?

I didn't know about that erratum--it must have been added after the initial set that I've already got marked in the book. Even if she could, and even though the erratum doesn't note it, making it level 50 makes it a ritual--and no thanks, Viola has no desire to blow 10 pawns of vis and risk all those botch dice.

Actually, no - it's only a ritual if it has a level greater than 50 (page 114 of the main book).

@MTKnife

And yes, the sponting would be insane--it would never have occurred to me it would be even theoretically possible.

LLSM is a really nice virtue - see the character I made in the Frightening Munchkinism thread, which could have pulled that spell off at gauntlet without a wound or (depending on interpretation of the Rules) risk - see Card & Board Games ARCHIVE & LINKS .
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I see it as a one-shot emergency capability--it's powerful, but not something you can do twice in a single encounter.

@MTKnife

On the subject of errata...apparently Minor and Major Flaws now give back Build Points, which will affect how we do the labs. That would bring the hypocaust lab down to 20 points, right? It migiht allow Viola to do a litlte more without going over 20 points.

With the undecorated flaw, yes.

@MTKnife

It's in the descriptive text, but I reduced the effect of the Running Water Feature/Focus because the water is barely running at the moment; lifting the curse will fix that.

Do you just want to make it a Lesser Feature?

Probably. Maybe take extra Size, too.

Scott